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by Walter Mosley

Author:	Walter Mosley
Subcategory:	Mystery
Language:	English
Publisher:	Phoenix; New Ed edition (2006)
Pages:	320 pages
Category:	Suspense and Mystery
Rating:	4.5
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Easy Rawlins - 10 ). Walter Mosley. Little, Brown and Company. Time Warner Book Group. 1271 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020. Visit our Web site at ww. wbookmark. The characters and events in this book are fictitious.

Cinnamon Kiss (2005). Covering Mosley: The books of Walter Mosley: 19 January 2004. A radio interview with Walter Mosley Aired on the Lewis Burke Frumkes Radio Show the 2nd of April 2011. Appearances on C-SPAN.

Walter Mosley, novelist and creator of African American detective Easy Rawlins, was born in South Central Los Angeles in 1952. He attended Goddard College and City College, CUNY, before graduating from Johnson State College in Vermont. He is a member of the executive board of PEN America Center and a member of PEN's Open Book Committee. He is also a former president of the Mystery Writers of America.

It is the Summer of Love and Easy Rawlins is contemplating robbing an armored car. It's farther outside the law than Easy has ever traveled, but his daughter

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Books by this Author. Walter Mosley Author Biography. Walter Mosley is one of America's most celebrated and beloved writers. A Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America, he has won numerous awards, including the Anisfield-Wolf Award, a Grammy, a PEN USA's Lifetime Achievement Award, and several NAACP Image awards.

It is the Summer of Love and Easy Rawlins is contemplating robbing an armored car. It's farther outside the law than Easy has ever traveled, but his daughter, Feather, needs a medical treatment that costs far more than Easy can earn or borrow in time. And his friend, Mouse, tells him it's a cinch. Then another friend, Saul Lynx, offers him a job that might solve Easy's problem without jail time. He has to track the disappearance of an eccentric, prominent attorney. An assistant, of sorts, the beautiful 'Cinnamon' Cargill is gone as well. Easy can tell there is much more than he is being told...Robert Lee, his new employer, is a suspect in the attorney's disappearance. But his need overcomes all concerns, and he plunges into unfamiliar territory, from the newfound hippie enclaves to a vicious plot that stretches back to the battlefields of Europe. The New York Times said of Mosley's bestseller, Little Scarlet, "Nobody, but nobody, writes this stuff like Mosley."

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Authis

Set in early 1966, Mosley again vividly captures the zeitgeist of LA (and San Francisco) at the dawn of the counter-culture movement: the Watts Riots are still a recent memory, American involvement in Vietnam is beginning to escalate, and the "summer of love" is fast approaching. In the midst of these restless times, Easy Rawlins wrestles with the very real possibility that his daughter, Feather, may die of a blood infection; he needs tens of thousands of dollars he doesn't have, and he needs it fast in order for Feather to receive the treatment that may save her life.
The story hops around quite a bit - Rawlins is distracted by his own crisis, as demonstrated by several near car accidents (and one very real one) which lends itself to the jumbled nature of the story - Rawlins is hired to find a missing briefcase, which quickly expands into murder and the disappearance of a young girl who may be the key to the case - Cinnamon. As Rawlins investigates and digs around, the stakes become increasingly higher.

The raw noir feel that I love so much about Mosley's writing is largely absent here, instead there is the nagging distraction of Rawlin's personal crisis and an increasingly complex web of characters that make following who is lying to whom to what ends difficult to follow. But Mosley's ability to capture a place and time is another strength of his stories, and is why _Cinnamon Kiss_ warrants a fourth star. The changing racial attitudes of the young - and the underlying suspicion, mistrust and anger between Rawlins and most whites - are as raw and prescient then as now, and are another reason why I remain a fan of the author and his work. While not my favorite piece, it is still a fun read.

Akir

Walter Mosley once wrote, "In poetry you have to see language as both music and content." On more than one occasion he has confessed his own attempts at composing a poem have been disappointing, "awful," in fact. To this day he probably believes he can not write a passable poem to save his life.

That said, that does not mean he is not a poet. He is, in fact, a poet of the human experience. He takes the doubt, the pain, desperation and loss, the everyday obstacles that anyone can relate to and in plain-spoken, hard-boiled eloquence he elevates it to art.

At the opening of CINAMMON KISS, the tenth novel in his Easy Rawlins series, Mosley's most well-known character is faced with a heartbreaking dilemma, one no parent ever wants to face: a child with a life-threatening illness. In order to raise the money necessary to send his daughter, Feather, to a special clinic in Switzerland, Easy considers joining his best friend--and the most dangerous presence in Easy's universe--Raymond "Mouse" Alexander, on a heist that would net him more than enough cash to take care of Feather's travel and medical expenses.

Another friend then offers Easy a job with an equally sizable payout (and the added incentive that it won't land him in prison). He accepts the second assignment. Unfortunately, as he gets deeper into the case he soon realizes he and members of his family could end up in the morgue. His investigation will take him from San Francisco's "Summer of Love" and back to the familiar, mean streets of his adopted hometown, Los Angeles.

One of the pleasures of Walter Mosley's Easy Rawlins series is that not only is each novel a self-contained story, taut and compelling in its own right, but that over the course of the series we are witnessing the emotional evolution of a human being. For example, early in the series (I believe it's in WHITE BUTTERFLY), Easy forces himself on his wife against her will. When she tries to get him to see that he raped her, he vehemently denies this, convinced that a man has every right to take his woman whenever he pleases.

That, as they say, was then. Easy Rawlins is a different man these days. Wisdom does not come without the body blows of experience, and Easy has had his share.

And those who have followed him on his journey are the richer for it.

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Let me say at the outset that this mini-review is intended only for those who have already read the novel. If you haven't read Cinnamon Kiss, please avoid this review because it contains a major spoiler.

I am a major fan of Walter Mosley/Easy Rawlins. I've read every book in sequence (actually skipped over the prequel Gone Fishin, for later) and am looking forward to reading Blonde Faith, currently the last novel in the series. I have enjoyed the way that Mosley has brought to life the richness and variety of the inner city. From bartenders to drug dealers to policemen, Mosley depicts characters who are unique and three dimensional, each with different strivings and capabilities. Mosley also highlights the interesting alliances that spring up when individuals are in survival mode; Easy's fascinating relationships with folks like Mouse and Jackson Blue are a case in point. Finally, Mosley's willingness to portray the flaws in his protagonist greatly adds to the authenticity of the work. Easy's evolution in communicating with women, in being able to trust, and in being vulnerable are major themes of the series.

While I found Cinnamon Kiss to be a very engaging work, I had two problems with it, one small and one large: The first problem stemmed from Mosley's account of history, and Easy's wide-eyed reaction to the summer of love. By 1968, the counterculture was full swing, not simply in Haight Ashbury but all over the country. The hippy lifestyle had taken root in LA much as it had in San Francisco. Just up the street from Watts, in Laurel Canyon (an area that was well known to Easy), artists such as Joni Mitchell, Steve Stills, Neil Young, Carole King, Graham Nash, etc. were in full creative mode. Communes and artist colonies were everywhere. So Easy's naive response to Haight Ashbury, his feeling of having entered a different planet, and as his ignorance of terms like "commune," and "LSD," were all quite implausible.

My bigger complaint, however, comes at the end of the novel. Newly back from Switzerland with a recovering Feather, lover and companion Bonnie is dismissed by Easy, thrown out of the house with nary a discussion, after her brief dalliance with another man. While I have no problem with Mosley breaking the lovers up, Easy's high-handed treatment of a woman who had worked tirelessly to save the life of his daughter, stains his image so deeply as to shock and alienate the reader. And while I'm sure that Mosley was looking for a plot device to free Easy from the (literarily stifling) confines of domesticity, this should have been done much more artfully, in more detail, and in a way that better preserved the integrity of his protagonist.

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